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Re: yet another romance conlang

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 5, 2000, 3:08
Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> > Ju:dajca is spoken in an alternate-history conearth where the Romans > didn't succeed in wiping Judea off the map. a bit nicer than the romans > in RL, these con-romans' plan for stopping judean revolts was to attempt > to swamp the country with imperial colonists.
I love this setting! Well, I like alternate timelines, but I've never dared attempting one in full.
> simple stops: / p t k b d g / ~ { p t c b d g } > > stops' allophones: [ P s x B z G ] ~ (marked in 'full writing' with > cedillas), according to Hebrew "beged-kefet" rules, only staying hard at > the beginning of a word, after a syllable-ending consonant, and between > two vowels where the first is 'small', some other exceptions.
Could you explain 'small' and 'big' vowels? Are they short and long respectively? I think you mentioned this once... Are these ones the beged-kefet rules?
> tap: / r / ~ { r }
At the beginning of words too?
> 'small' vowels: / a E i o u / ~ { a e i o u } > > 'big' vowels: / A<r> e ij ow uw / ~ { a: e: i: o: u: }, {:} = macron.
Oh, forget the question about vowels. But what is /A<r>/?
> Ju:dajca is commonly written in boustrophedon style, with alternating > lines of latin (left-to-right) and hebrew (right-to-left) scripts.
Must be pretty confusing, huh? I'd like to see some ancient manuscripts if you have them at hand. :)
> En el mundo es importante que > siempre recordemos - > tu' no puedes mirar el futuro. Y > e'so me da miedo. > Be'salas a las horas que pasan, > antes que te abandonen - > ni aqui' ni alla', en la oscuridad.
Is this yours? In any case, *<e'so> doesn't need an accute (<esto> and <aquello> don't either). And you may want to say just _Besa las horas_, for the sake of both grammar (nah...) and rhythm. _Antes que_ could also be _antes de que_ (those two forms are the source of endless and fruitless dispute) -- but this one sounds more spontaneous and keeps the rhythm. --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html